<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368697" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Certain Matters of the Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's a matter of the heart, <br>the doctor says, <br>and he can fix it <br>with catheter ablation. <br>'It works miracles, ' he says, <br>'in certain matters of the heart.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's been a cardiologist for years.<br>'Take my word for it, ' he says.<br>'You'll be sedated. Won't feel a thing.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No excavation in my chest, either. <br>Instead, he'll make little holes <br>in my groin and snake tiny wires <br>to the surface of my heart <br>and kill the current that makes </div><div style="margin:10px 0">my heart race like a hare <br>at times and mope <br>like a turtle other times.<br>He's never lost a patient.<br>'You'll be fine, ' he says. <br>'Trust me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nine out of 10 ablations work.<br>I'll save hundreds a month, he says, <br>on medications. No more Multaq. <br>No more Cardizem. And I'll never <br>have to wear a heart monitor again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Shall we give it a try? ' he asks.<br>'I've got an opening <br>two weeks from Monday.<br>It's an outpatient procedure.<br>You'll go home the same day, <br>rest for a week and then resume<br>your usual activities, even bowling.<br>Do you like bowling? My nurses do.<br>I prefer woodcarving.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Okay, Doc, ' I tell him. <br>'I'll give it a try, but tell me, <br>where were you 40 years ago <br>when the kids were small<br>and I was young, like a bull, <br>and a different matter of the heart<br>dropped me like a bullet.<br>Are you sure my heart's still ticking? <br>Where's your stethoscope? <br>I haven't felt a thing in years.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donal+Mahoney">Donal Mahoney</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368697" data-title="In Certain Matters of the Heart de Donal Mahoney" data-description="It's a matter of the heart, the doctor says, and he can fix it with catheter ablation. 'It works miracles, ' he says, 'in certain matters of the heart.' He's been a cardiologist for years. 'Take my word for it, ' he says. 'You'll be sedated...."></div> </div> </div>

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